How the Images in Plato’s Dialogues Develop a Life of Their Own
| Author: | Jenks, Rod | |
| Year: | 2011 | |
| Pages: | 316 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-3934-X 978-0-7734-3934-4 | |
| Price: | $219.95 + shipping | |
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Nominated for the London Hellenic Society 2011 Criticos Prize
An explanation of how Plato’s use of imagery in his dialogues affects his philosophy.
Reviews
“Rod Jenks explores a number of Plato’s most perplexing images, and seeks to explain these both specifically, but also very generally, within Plato’s overall philosophical program.” – Prof. Nicholas D. Smith Lewis & Clark College
“… a delight to read … delivers us the Plato that gave up writing literature only to put it back in his philosophy.” – Prof. Chad Weiner Portland State University
“… a delight to read … delivers us the Plato that gave up writing literature only to put it back in his philosophy.” – Prof. Chad Weiner Portland State University
Table of Contents
Madness in the Dialogues
The Explananda
The Crito
The Protagoras
The Phaedrus
The Theaetetus
The Republic
The Daimonion
The Meno
The Explanantia
Schisms in the Phaedrus
Metaphor in the Crito
The Complexity of Piety in the Euthyphro
Persuasion and Obedience
The Scholarship on “Persuade or Obey”
Defiance Would Amount to Rebellion
A Rationale for the Metaphor
The Meno and its Metaphors
The Context
Anamnesis
Larissa and Daedalus
The Road to Larissa
The Statues of Daedalus
Divine People
Some Images in Republic
Going Down
Horses and Fire
Gyges’ Ring
The Myth of the Metals
Justice “Write Large”
The Cave and its Fire
Decline and Fall
The Myth of Er
Suspicious Characters in the Corpus
The Daimonion
“The Argument”
“Protagoras”
The Charioteer of the Phaedrus
The Eleatic Stranger
Conclusion: The Image and Its Place in “True Rhetoric”
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Indices
General Index
Index of Proper Names
Index Locorum
The Explananda
The Crito
The Protagoras
The Phaedrus
The Theaetetus
The Republic
The Daimonion
The Meno
The Explanantia
Schisms in the Phaedrus
Metaphor in the Crito
The Complexity of Piety in the Euthyphro
Persuasion and Obedience
The Scholarship on “Persuade or Obey”
Defiance Would Amount to Rebellion
A Rationale for the Metaphor
The Meno and its Metaphors
The Context
Anamnesis
Larissa and Daedalus
The Road to Larissa
The Statues of Daedalus
Divine People
Some Images in Republic
Going Down
Horses and Fire
Gyges’ Ring
The Myth of the Metals
Justice “Write Large”
The Cave and its Fire
Decline and Fall
The Myth of Er
Suspicious Characters in the Corpus
The Daimonion
“The Argument”
“Protagoras”
The Charioteer of the Phaedrus
The Eleatic Stranger
Conclusion: The Image and Its Place in “True Rhetoric”
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Indices
General Index
Index of Proper Names
Index Locorum